BlackBerry 7 OS

New Features in BlackBerry 7.1

Make productivity easier

Waiting in a coffee shop or airport but unable to find a Wi-Fi® Hotspot? Turn on Mobile Hotspot on your BlackBerry smartphone, found under Manage Connections, and create a hotspot. Then share it by connecting up to five Wi-Fi devices at once.1

Pull up documents on your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet while tethering it to your fully functional BlackBerry smartphone and still have three other devices connected to Mobile Hotspot at once.

Get things done

While you’ve got Wi-Fi connectivity by connecting to Mobile Hotspot1, make calls over Wi-Fi instead of using your plan’s minutes.3

New Features in BlackBerry 7.1

Enjoy information and entertainment at your fingertips

With FM tuner support, tune in to your favorite FM stations on the spot, from virtually anywhere.4 Local news and music are now at your fingertips.

New Features in BlackBerry 7.1

It does the thinking for you

With each key stroke you enter in your Universal Search, the auto suggest feature filters local search results and suggested Bing™ web search terms to interpret what you’re looking for and provide you with options.

Mobile Hotspot

BlackBerry Tag

Wi-Fi calling

FM Radio

Auto suggest

Updates for apps you love

Twitter

Twitter® is a BBM connected app, which means BBM is built right in. Quickly and easily post your latest tweet as your BBM status by selecting the Share with BBM icon. The best part? You can do this right from the Twitter app.

BlackBerryTravel

The BlackBerry® Travel™ app makes it easier than ever to share your travel activities.5 BlackBerry Travel is a BBM connected app, so you can instantly update BBM contacts on your travel status with just a few clicks—you won't even have to leave the app.6

BlackBerryMessenger

With BlackBerry Tag integration, invite a friend to BBM or accept an invitation by aligning the back of your NFC enabled BlackBerry smartphone with the back of their smartphone.1 BBM is also built into many of your favorite apps—like Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Travel.

Facebook

Share even more without ever leaving your Facebook® app. It's a BBM connected app and that means BBM is built right in. Post a status update or location check-in on Facebook, then easily make it your BBM status by selecting the Share with BBM icon.

Smartphones with BlackBerry 7

Liquid Graphics technology

Smoother, fluid graphics

Liquid Graphics™ is the graphics processing technology that makes the experience on smartphones with BlackBerry 7 OS faster and more responsive. Through the combination of hardware and software engineering, it delivers instant response times, smoother rendering and fluid animations.7

Breakthrough technologies

Near Field Communication (NFC)

With Near Field Communication (NFC)2 built right in, you can get information and link up with other NFC-enabled devices or authentic BlackBerry accessories—all with a single tap.

And with BlackBerry Tag, available with BlackBerry 7.1, you can invite a friend to BBM and share an app from BlackBerry World, videos, pictures and music by aligning the backs of any two NFC enabled BlackBerry smartphones.

HD video recording

Voice-activatedUniversal Search

With speech-to-text translation, search for files, emails, contacts, music and more—all without typing a thing. Comb through everything on your BlackBerry smartphone and even search the web.

Auto suggest via Universal Search

Find what you need, and sometimes things you didn’t even know you wanted, with the auto suggest feature in Universal Search. It filters local search results and suggested Bing™ web search terms with each key stroke.

Pre-installed apps and services

With pre-installed apps and services10, you get the powerful features you need to get you from the coffee shop to that important meeting, then back home for dinner.

Check with your service provider for availability, cost and restrictions. Subject to change.

4

FM Radio only available on BlackBerry Curve 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9310/9315 smartphones.

5

The BlackBerry Travel application requires activation with a data plan with internet service. Certain features of the BlackBerry Travel application may not be available for all geographic locations or from all service providers. Check with your service provider for availability, cost and restrictions.